[Gossip] ㅋ I knew it
ㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋㅋ What did I tell you?
JHS and KDH divorce was noise marketing too, right?
Anyone can see KDH’s heat came and JHS lost his mind ㅇㅇ
Entrance cut lol
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Entrance cut, my ass. S stayed out overnight, you know
└22222 S stayed out overnight
└└Did Dodaeng allow it?
└└└Would Dodaeng be the type to allow it? Are you guys S’s fans? ㅋㅋㅎㅎㅋㅋ
└└└└Fuck, got nothing to say
But wait, what’s up with Chan? Is Do a demonic omega?
└Chan and Do are best friends ㅇㅇ
└└Don’t bury Chan in JHS and KDH posts ㄴㄴ
└└└Insider info says Chan confessed to Do ㅇㅇ
└└└└└???????
└└└└└└Think carefully before replying, I’m dripping with blood
└└└└└└└For real, Do is a demonic omega;;;;;;;
Dohyeong-ah, please be the dominant alpha
└Let’s only walk the flower path with Glass Holding Stars 2 pleaseee
└└Even if our Dohyeong manifests
└└└You guys should be worried about Do keeping S in check ㅋ
└└└└Can’t you read? They said Jung ran to Dohyeong~ Your oppa’s statement was posted too~
When will these guys quiet down?
└222 So tired of this
***
“Are you really going to be okay?”
Haesung, who had been scrolling through articles on his phone, lifted his head and looked at the rearview mirror. Seeing Seonghyeok looking at him worriedly, he smiled slightly and shook his head.
“I don’t know what you mean.”
“He says he doesn’t know. Hey, do you even know what the reaction is like right now—”
“Jung Haesung got entrance-cutted. Jung Haesung coldly rejected by his ex-husband. Netizens belatedly realize how deep Kim Dohyeong’s wounds must have been from those controversial remarks at the time.”
“…Yeah, you know it well. You know it annoyingly well.”
“Think nothing of it.”
As he shrugged his shoulders and squinted his eyes, Seonghyeok scratched his neck and let out a sigh.
“Really, why are you being like this, Haesung? When you weren’t like this before—”
“I won’t die.”
They say if you can’t speak, at least you won’t be hated. Seonghyeok shook his head and let out groan after groan.
He knew. Why Seonghyeok was frustrated, how disadvantageous this situation was for him. He knew everything, but this was the only way.
An opportunity to atone to Dohyeong, even just a little.
An opportunity to reflect on his ignorant, indifferent self.
He didn’t hope for a redefinition of their relationship. Nor did he want to try something again.
It was just that he needed to do this to feel at ease. How selfish a thought was that?
“But it really does seem to be chaos. They say Haesung hyung’s fans and Dohyeong hyung’s fans are fighting like crazy.”
“Of course they would. It was chaos when they divorced too.”
At the conversation between the two, Haesung slightly lifted his head. Then he quietly looked down at the articles again.
“…Was it insufficient?”
“What?”
As if he had heard Haesung’s murmur, Seonghyeok turned around in shock.
“You, what did you just say?”
“My statement. Was it insufficient?”
“Would it be insufficient? It was too much!”
“If it was too much, why would the fans be fighting with each other?”
The world really does seem to revolve around him. Seonghyeok clicked his tongue and shook his head.
“Hey, you… Really.”
“Say it.”
“You’re amazing. Really, Jung Haesung is amazing. That’s what.”
He raised his thumb high, but Haesung didn’t bat an eye. Rather, he just looked at Seonghyeok strangely, as if asking why he was being like that.
But when there was no more words from Seonghyeok, he moved his gaze back to his phone. Should he have put out a more detailed statement? Like the letter he had posted on the fan cafe when he decided to marry Dohyeong.
He should do that soon. Haesung nodded his head, thinking and coming to a conclusion by himself. Without even considering Seonghyeok, who was looking at him anxiously from the passenger seat.
***
Dohyeong’s heat cycle had ended, but Wootae decided to stay at his place until the script reading started. He had firmly refused, but he couldn’t break that resolute will.
Of course, Dohyeong knew too. That it wasn’t just a matter of the heat cycle.
Since the scandal and rebuttal articles had all come out, it must be to protect Dohyeong from the extreme fans. There might even be private bodyguards lurking nearby.
Because Seri would do that and more.
Sitting on the sofa and looking at his phone, Dohyeong glanced at Wootae lying across from him. After debating for a while whether to ask or not, he spoke with difficulty.
“Hyung, how’s the reaction?”
Hmm, Wootae, who had been sighing long, sat up abruptly. As if it was absurd, he clicked his tongue while shaking his head and spoke carefully.
“I think I have to acknowledge one thing.”
“What?”
“Jung Haesung’s foresight.”
“Foresight?”
Seeing Wootae’s reaction, it didn’t seem like there was anything to worry about. But hearing his following words, it didn’t seem like it was all good either.
“Remember what Jung Haesung said? He told you to use him.”
“Yeah. I remember.”
“He said that to you later too. That if you ran away from his shadow, this time he would be trapped.”
Recalling Haesung’s words, he nodded.
“Yeah, he did say that…”
“This is what foresight means. He roughly understands how the reporters and public opinion will move depending on the direction he takes. Not just anyone can do this.”
Right, one of the things he always had to acknowledge about him was that he was faster than anyone at assessing situations.
A person quick to calculate in his head how to respond and how to move forward. On the other hand, Dohyeong was the type who couldn’t do such things.
“Anyway, it worked out well. There’s always noise, so don’t take it too much to heart.”
Got it?
As Wootae patted his shoulder, Dohyeong could only smile.
They said it ended well, but truthfully, his heart was just as uncomfortable. Because he couldn’t understand what Haesung meant by saying he would be trapped in his shadow.
Was it something he could really be at ease about?
“By the way, there’s no news from Yuchan’s side.”
At Wootae’s words, he finally came to his senses. Right, Haesung wasn’t the only one involved in this incident. Realizing he had forgotten about Yuchan’s existence, he bit his innocent lips.
“Did he not contact you?”
“No. There was no separate contact.”
Dohyeong shook his head weakly. Looking down quietly at his phone with no messages, he let out a heavy breath.
“Yuchan’s side must have taken a hit too… A guy who hasn’t had a single scandal since debut.”
At those words, his heart seemed to get heavier. The expression on his face as he looked down at his phone darkened low.
“Should I call him?”
At Dohyeong’s question, Wootae also pondered for a moment. Would it be right for Dohyeong to contact him now? After thinking for a while about whether he might be creating unnecessary trouble, he nodded.
“Yeah, try calling. You’re friends.”
Friends.
Wootae’s words made a corner of his heart sting.
‘Let me… become a special person to you. Let me protect you. Dohyeong-ah.’
Yuchan’s confession came to mind.
‘…I’m serious.’
That face turning bright red as he faced him also didn’t leave his mind.
He had turned away saying they’d talk later, but somehow it was difficult to bring up, so he avoided it by going around in circles. He thought he’d be able to talk about it someday. But now that things had turned out this way, he couldn’t grasp what to do.
“Dohyeong-ah.”
At that moment, Wootae’s voice awakened Dohyeong from his silence. When he turned his head in surprise, he saw him hesitating.
“Yeah?”
“…Well, what is it.”
He’s not usually the type to hesitate like that. Dohyeong silently watched Wootae. What is he trying to say? His gaze looking at him remained as if puzzled.
“Ah, how do I…”
Wootae, who had been groaning, covered his face with both hands. As if washing his face forcefully, he rubbed his face down, then sat up straight with his shoulders spread wide and back straightened as if he had decided something.
“Ah, I don’t know. Let me just ask one thing.”
“…Yeah. What is it?”
The way he was pulling himself together and asking back was quite strange. He started getting tense as well.
“You, is it true that you got a confession from Yuchan?”
So this is what it’s like when your heart drops to your feet. He felt it anew. He put more strength into the hand holding his phone and steadied his breath once.
Where did this story leak from? Only Yuchan and he should know this.
Since he received the confession at the makeup shop, he also had to consider the possibility that it accidentally leaked from there.
“You don’t need to hide it from me. Um, so…”
Wootae didn’t continue his words, but the question that would follow wouldn’t change.
He would ask again if he really received a confession from Yuchan. Dohyeong turned his head without saying anything.
His burning face felt like it would burst at any moment. Even his gaze that kept heading toward the floor must be showing affirmation.
He couldn’t quite stay calm.
“It’s really true.”
At Wootae’s voice that sounded utterly deflated, he unconsciously squeezed his eyes shut.
Dohyeong knew too. That this was a very important time.
How luxurious a moment it was to receive someone’s confession, look into his own heart, and make earnest efforts for the act called dating.
It was his comeback work after several years. And at that, an opportunity won with great difficulty after the blemish that wasn’t a blemish called divorce.
If things went wrong, everything could be ruined. It was also a risk factor that could shatter not only his comeback but everything prepared for this drama without leaving a trace.
Right, it must be wrong.
It’s still an unnecessary story for him. Dating, love, and such things. He couldn’t collapse the foundation he had barely built up by being swept up in things that required consuming emotions.
“Hyung, I…”
The moment he turned to Wootae to say something, Dohyeong closed his mouth tight.
Because he saw Wootae’s expression, firmly hardened and thinking deeply.
He was going to say that there would be no love for him, that he didn’t want to think about anything other than working hard for this opportunity he barely caught.
Moreover, that it would be difficult to have feelings beyond friendship for Yuchan.
“…Wootae hyung.”
It wasn’t at all an atmosphere where he could bring it up. Dohyeong lowered his head again without being able to say anything.
“This, it’s a story spreading from the communities right now.”
At Wootae’s words, Dohyeong nodded.
“They’re calling it insider information, so everyone’s believing it…”
If it’s an insider, it’s one of two. A makeup shop employee, or a staff member who was preparing for the photoshoot.
Whoever it was, it was certain he had encountered an unavoidable situation.
“Dohyeong-ah.”
At that moment, he heard Wootae’s voice, frighteningly calm and composed.
Quietness and silence tend to make people more anxious. Startled, Dohyeong lifted his head and faced Wootae.
“I, I mean…”
